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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Professor here...agree both are great options[/b] and the student should look at specific faculty profiles and/or evaluate where they'll be happiest.[/quote]

Botb are great.  My UVA grad is doing a doctorate (DPhil) at Oxford right now.[/quote]

When I was looking at graduate programs, I was warned that although a certain Oxbridge college had the best stash of materials for my chosen topic, no U.S. institution was going to hire me to teach with a DPhil. I was shocked, but it was my department chair, so he clearly knew about hiring.

Has that changed, or is your kid planning to do something else with their degree?[/quote]

Definitely correct. There are over a hundred libraries at Oxford, the Bodlein being the most famous and one of the oldest in Europe. Most if the libraries have foreign language collections that no one else does. DC currently is prepping for the lsat. Yes the masters work ties in with law[/quote]

Why would your child get a masters and DPhil and THEN go to law school? Why didn’t they go right after or shortly after undergrad? You’re not making sense. [/quote]

Not that parent, but if you’re gunning for H or Y, you’d better have something special in addition to your perfect lsat score.

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[b]Work experience, a unique life story and/or an outstanding EC (read: Olympian) is prized in addition to grades & LSAT for HYPS.[i][/i][i][/b]

Unless the Oxford PP’s child is a Rhodes scholar, I’m not sure how or why they think a bunch of random degrees is going to help them in law school 
admissions. Gives rich kid perpetual student vibes.[/quote]

True. I had an Olympian in my Harvard law school class. Most of the students were the valedictorian or salutatorian of their college. It takes a lot more than just grades and lsat to get into a top law school. Five years ago Dean Manning (HLS) told me that almost all of the incoming class had taken at least two years off between undergrad and law school. Many then went to European schools for the next two years, some lucky ones on Marshalls; Rhodes, Fulbrights or they pick up an economics degree at Let’s See Europe (London school of economics). A number went to the less costly German universities. I was a lowly paralegal for my time of, earning money for law school[/quote]

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